Important dates

Exam session

Results released

Certificates sent to schools and colleges by:

Summer 2017

Centres: Wednesday 23 August 2017

Students: Thursday 24 August 2017

Tuesday 7 November 2017

Results are released on ResultsPlus Direct from 9am (UK time) to students who've been registered for the service. If you don't have login details for ResultsPlus Direct, you'll need to check with your school or college to find out what time your results will be ready to collect.

How are Edexcel GCSEs marked and graded?

For our Edexcel GCSE Mathematics A (1MA0) you take both Paper 1 and Paper 2 in the same exam session. Once we’ve marked your work, we'll add together your scores for each paper and issue an overall grade based on your performance across the two assessments.

The overall grades you can be awarded will depend on the tier you sat:

Higher tier (Papers 3H and 4H): A*-D (with an ‘allowed E’)

Foundation tier (Papers 1F and 2F): C-G

If you don't get enough marks across the two papers to achieve a passing grade, you'll be awarded a U which means 'Unclassified'.

Your results slip will only show your overall grade but the Exams Officer at your school or college will be able to tell you how many marks you achieved on each of the question papers.

For our Edexcel GCSE English and English Language courses, you'll complete 3 units and a speaking and listening endorsement.

You’ll be issued an overall (‘cash-in’) UMS mark and grade as well as a UMS mark and grade for each unit. Our Edexcel GCSEs are graded A* to G, although the exam for Unit 2 is tiered according to ability and so doesn't target the full grade range:

Higher tier: A*-D

Foundation tier: C-G.

The Speaking and Listening component of your Edexcel GCSE in English or English Language doesn’t contribute to your overall GCSE grade. Instead, we’ll give you a numerical grade from 1 to 5 to indicate how you performed in your Speaking and Listening, with a 5 being the top grade you can achieve.

If you don't get enough marks to achieve a passing grade on a unit, the overall qualification or the speaking and listening endorsement, you'll be awarded a U which means 'Unclassified'.

For our Edexcel GCSE Computer Science (1CP0) you'll complete a written exam and a practical programming controlled assessment task. Once we’ve marked your work, we'll calculate a weighted subject mark and issue you a grade based on your performance across the two assessments.

Our Edexcel GCSEs are graded A* to G. If you don't get enough marks across the two papers to achieve a passing grade, you'll be awarded a U which means 'Unclassified'.

Your results slip will only show your overall grade but the Exams Officer at your school or college will be able to tell you how many marks you achieved on each of the question papers.

You’ll be issued an overall (‘cash-in’) UMS mark and grade as well as a UMS mark and grade for each unit. Our Edexcel GCSEs are graded A* to G, although some exam papers are tiered according to ability and so don’t target the full grade range:

Higher tier: A*-D

Foundation tier: C-G.

If you don't get enough marks in a unit to achieve a passing grade, you'll be awarded a U which means 'Unclassified'.

Your overall qualification grade is calculated by adding together your UMS scores for each unit.

The 'raw' mark is the actual mark you achieve on an exam or controlled assessment.

UMS stands for ‘Uniform Mark Scale’ and the UMS mark is a conversion of your raw mark. UMS marks are not used in our Edexcel GCSE Mathematics A (1MA0) or Edexcel GCSE Computer Science (1CP0) specifications.

If you would like to know your raw mark for a particular unit, you will need to speak to the exams officer at your school or college or use our mark converter.

If you don’t take all of these units you can still cash in, as long as you were put forward for them all. For example, if you studied a unit but chose not to take the exam, you wouldn’t get a mark for that unit but could still get an overall grade. On your results slip this would show with the '#' sign, indicating that the grade for your cash-in is ‘incomplete’ (for example, ‘E#’).

Sometimes illness, injury or other personal circumstances can affect your performance during an assessment. In these cases, it may be possible to issue you with a calculated result or extra marks. This is referred to as ‘special consideration'.

If you think you may be entitled to special consideration, you should speak to the exams officer at your school or college. They’ll need to make a request on your behalf and send us any supporting documents to help us make a decision.

Special consideration isn’t shown on the statement of results you’re given by your school or college but is indicated on ResultsPlus Direct by a flag. If you don’t have access to ResultsPlus Direct, you’ll need to check with your exams officer whether special consideration has been applied.